Erica Bryant: Domestic abusers wielding new tools

3:27 AM,
Feb. 15, 2014

Erica Bryant

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A young lady in one of Monroe County's suburbs used to start her high school classes with a disturbing ritual. She would take out her cell phone and snap three pictures of the kids around her. Then she would text them to her boyfriend's phone so he could see which students she was sitting with, and see that none of them were boys.

When Alternatives for Battered Women CEO Jamie Saunders first told me that story, I thought back to a friend I had in college.

Back then, cell phones were for rich people. The university stationed little free phones around campus so we could call each other's dorm rooms when we ...